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Doctors give Obamacare Similar Diagnosis

Friday, January 29th, 2010

The author of this article in the American Spectator makes the same points Dr. Willey raises in his  “Un-Reform” series.  He was dealing with his elderly mother, who fell ill shortly after the new year.  His conclusion:  “I do not believe that we need another way to pay for health care in this country, but we do need a better way to deliver and utilize it.”

That is the message that Washington fails to understand – we don’t need a national health care program, or as some have dubbed it “Obamacare.”  We need changes that embrace the good aspects of American health care, and reform the pieces that don’t work well.  Dr. Bob Moffit of the Heritage Foundation and I recently held a online town hall to discuss free market solutions to health care challenges.  We proposed  many alternatives to “Obamacare” including association health plans, an initiative I pushed in both the House and Senate that was filibustered by many of the same people who say there aren’t other proposals…